Word: wsai
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cincinnati, when local newspapers ignored a smear campaign against a Negro running for re-election to the city council, radio station WSAI raised its voice to chastise both the whisperers and the silent press. The one-shot unscheduled broadcast did not put Candidate Theodore Berry back into office, reported a WSAI spokesman, but it brought more than 1,000 letters and phone calls, mostly approving, and goaded the newspapers into a defense of their silence...